Download It Here
http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.0-alpha7.tar.gz
I know I skipped alpha 6 release, which had some awesome updates which I have listed below. I am impressed at the amount of progress on this project between alpha5 and alpha6.
There were a lot of security fixes and important changes but what I can also see is movement to more of the cleanup details, which means beta is getting close.
Also for all of my fellow 960px width fans we have the new theme Bartik! which is just awesome.
Updates from Alpha 5 to Alpha 6
- Drupal has a new core theme: Bartik!
- Numerous fixes to the upgrade path, including basic tests. Getting very close!
- Numerous important security fixes.
- Numerous accessibility improvements.
- Setting up Private files is now optional, rather than required.
- Registry made more fool-proof and robust.
- Redesign of Field UI “Manage Display” screen, to reflect multiple view modes. Field UI screens are now also extensible from contrib.
- Re-implementation of Overlay without jQuery UI, to address numerous critical issues.
- User creation setting now defaults to “Visitors, with admin approval” for security.
- Installation will no longer fail when settings.php is not present. Nice usability improvement.
- Required modules are once again shown on the modules page.
- Many improvements to input formats and filters.
- Table prefixes are now per-database connection, rather than global.
Visit the official announcement http://drupal.org/node/848970
Alpha 7 Release has even more to boast about.
- HUGE number of upgrade path fixes, including automated tests for updates. We are *very* close to a totally working upgrade path! Please test!
- Great usability improvements, including the installer not greeing you with a red error of death anymore on shared hosts!
- Field UI improvements to allow it to be further extended from contrib.
- Numerous Form API fixes and improvements.
- Numerous accessibility fixes.
- A variety of PostgreSQL and SQLite fixes, almost at 100% automated tests passing on both!
- Lots of polish on coding standards compliance and API documentation.
- Markup improvements, and a new default jQuery UI theme.
- Numerous security fixes, including ‘forward-ports’ of Drupal core SAs, and fixes to private files.
- Performance improvements.
- There have been several API changes since alpha6 to fix critical issues. These are broadcast to the development mailing list by Randy Fay.
Please check out the API changes and keep up to date on changes which will affect module development and theme creation/manipulation.
“We can potentially reach beta within the next month by focusing on this short-list of issues!”
http://drupal.org/drupal-7.0-alpha7
Get psyched! I just deployed my instance of alpha7. More to come!
